[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5324: 404 error on empty category page

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#5324: 404 error on empty category page
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 Reporter:  othellobloke            |        Owner:  technosailor
     Type:  defect                  |       Status:  assigned    
 Priority:  normal                  |    Milestone:  2.7         
Component:  General                 |      Version:  2.5         
 Severity:  normal                  |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback  |  
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Comment (by mrmist):

 It still doesn't look quite right to me - Now instead of a 404 you get
 "Not found", which doesn't really seem any better from the viewer's
 perspective. "Not found" does not really explain the situation - does it
 mean "author not found" or "no posts found", etc..

 If the author exists (with posts), you get a page heading of "Author
 Archive" (with posts below.).  It seems that if the author exists (without
 posts) it should still say "Author Archive" and simply not list any posts,
 rather than saying "Not found".

 (This may be a templating issue which distincts it from the coding issue,
 I suppose, in which case it needs a change to the behaviour of the default
 template.)

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